Design and Implementation of a femto-satellite technology demonstrator

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Date2011-07-05
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Abstract
The present work is aimed to demonstrate the development and implementation of a scalable
femto-satellite technology demonstrator, experimentation and development platform
in order to practically prove the possibility of meeting the N-Prize competition requirements
as well as introducing some possible scientific applications of a femto-satellite as
a satellite-on-a-board spacecraft. In order to achieve these goals the low-cost low-power
self-sufficient platform with communication, data processing position determination and
keeping abilities was designed and implemented. A set of subsystem qualification tests
was designed and performed in order to obtain numerical results and calls for the future
studies. The ability to meet the general space qualification and particular N-Prize
competition-related requirements was studied and the overall conclusions were stated.
Description
Este estudio esta destinado al dise?o, construccion y prueba de una plataforma llamada Aerial Wireless Inertial Platform (AWIP) que tiene capacidad de comunicacion inalambrica, altas prestaciones y fiabilidad, sensor de actitud y velocidad de giro, bajo consumo, bajo coste, un alto nivel de integracion y bajo peso. Esta plataforma tiene muchas aplicaciones pero la mayor restriccion es debido a las exigencias del entorno para el espacio que debe reunir. La AWIP debe ser dise?ada como un demostrador multi-funcional para aplicaciones de Femto-satelites asi como vehiculos no tripulados UAV en enjambre, nube de sensores, etc. En esta Tesis, se estudia la posibilidad de aplicarlo a un Femto-satelite para una mision basica en LEO y que tiene como finalidad probar el modelo escalable para misiones de complejidad aumentada. El lugar de investigacion sera en los laboratorios aeronauticos, como el tunel de viento, con un bajo coste y creando herramientas SMT o Surface Mount Technology.
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